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Think Marianne Williamson is weird? Conventional politicians are infinitely worse

Caitlin Johnson
Medium
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:15 UTC
Marianne Williamson debate
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Marianne Williamson
Night one of the CNN Democratic debates has come and gone, and if you missed it you didn't miss much. Basically the entire thing can be summed up as Jake Tapper asking the progressives on stage, "So explain why Americans would vote for your policies when we here at CNN have been telling them for years that they're not allowed to support those policies?" Then for balance they ask one of the boring centrist candidates to explain why Bernie Sanders is crazy. Repeat for two and a half hours.

Disrupting the monotony was Marianne Williamson, who once again was the most-searched candidate following the debate. She raised eyebrows by using the phrase "dark psychic forces" to describe Trump's demagoguery, prompting many ironically ironic tweets from ironically ironic people eager to make fun of how weird and ridiculous this self-help guru woman is.

Which to me is a bit odd seeing as the people she's being compared to are status quo politicians, who are some of the most freakishly insane creatures on this planet.
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Trump admits some content he retweets causes 'problems' for the White House

John Bowden
The Hill
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:31 UTC
Trump Twitter

"If I got fair coverage I wouldn't even have to tweet. It's my only form of defense," Trump said.
President Trump said Tuesday that some of the accounts or content that he retweets from his @realDonaldTrump handle can end up being a "problem" for the White House.

During an interview with C-SPAN political editor Steve Scully, the president argued that he did not regret any of the tweets he personally wrote, but demurred when it came to content from other accounts when asked whether he regretted any of his account's roughly 43,000 messages.

"Not much, honestly not much," Trump said. "I sent the one about the 'wiretapping' ... and that turned out to be true."

"A lot of the times the bigger problem is the retweets," he continued. "You know, you retweet something that sounds good but it turns out to be from a player that's not the best player in the world. And that sort of causes a problem."

Comment: The video interview:



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'Tory MPs do not care about poor people or NHS, and people know this' - PM Johnson's senior advisor

Rowena Mason
The Guardian
Fri, 30 Aug 2019 20:30 UTC
Dominic Cummings
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Dominic Cummings says Tory MPs 'don't care about the NHS' in 2017 – video
Voters are right to think Tory MPs largely do not care about poorer people or the NHS, according to Dominic Cummings in comments that have emerged from two years ago.

Boris Johnson's new senior adviser and a key architect of Brexit gave his damning view on Conservative MPs at a conference in 2017, where he said: "People think, and by the way I think most people are right: 'The Tory party is run by people who basically don't care about people like me.'

"That is what most people in the country have thought about the Tory party for decades. I know a lot of Tory MPs and I am sad to say the public is basically correct. Tory MPs largely do not care about these poorer people. They don't care about the NHS. And the public has kind of cottoned on to that."

Comment: The rapidly deteriorating quality of life for the majority of citizens is a testament to what those in power really have in mind for the country: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #26: Globalization vs Nationalism - The Hidden Causes of The Yellow Vest Protests in France

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Coralling Trump and BoJo: US Senators threaten to block trade deal with Britain if Brexit imperils open Irish border

Julian Borger
The Guardian
Sat, 31 Aug 2019 07:49 UTC
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Donald Trump with Boris Johnson in 2017. Trump has promised the two countries could strike 'a very substantial trade agreement'.
Any future US-UK trade deal would almost certainly be blocked by the US Congress if Brexit affects the Irish border and jeopardises peace in Northern Ireland, congressional leaders and diplomats have warned.

Boris Johnson has presented a trade deal with the US as a way of offsetting the economic costs of leaving the EU, and Donald Trump promised the two countries could strike "a very substantial trade agreement" that would increase trade "four or five times".

Trump, however, would not be able to push an agreement through a hostile Congress, where there would be strong bipartisan opposition to any UK trade deal in the event of a threat to the 1998 Good Friday agreement, and to the open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.

Comment: There is always going to be something that politicians will use to prevent Brexit going ahead - because it was never meant to - and this is just another to add to the list: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Russian embassy in Syria back online after unexplained Twitter ban


RT
Sat, 31 Aug 2019 19:52 UTC
Russian Syrian
© Reuters / Omar Sanadiki
FILE PHOTO: A Russian soldier and Syrian woman wave their countries' flags in the Syrian city of Homs
Russia's embassy in Damascus is back on Twitter, after it had its account temporarily suspended. The reasoning behind the short-lived ban is still unclear.

The embassy celebrated the reinstatement of tweeting rights on Wednesday evening, with staff thanking supporters for raising awareness about the ban. "Stay with us and encourage your friends to join," the account tweeted, "as further on in such surcumstances (sic) we'll need much stronger backup."

Earlier, the embassy's account was abruptly suspended, with Twitter giving no explanation, save for a note that it "suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules." The suspension did, however, come after the embassy posted a video criticizing the controversial 'White Helmets,' a Syrian civil-defense organization supposedly linked to jihadist rebels and terror organizations like Al-Qaeda.

Comment: The empire has little defense against truth and so has to resort to outright censorship:

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James Comey's next reckoning is imminent — this time for leaking

John Solomon
The Hill
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 15:30 UTC
Comey
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Former FBI director James Comey
The Justice Department's chief watchdog is preparing a damning report on James Comey's conduct in his final days as FBI director that likely will conclude he leaked classified information and showed a lack of candor after his own agency began looking into his feud with President Trump over the Russia probe.

Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz's team referred Comey for possible prosecution under the classified information protection laws, but Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors working for Attorney General William Barr reportedly have decided to decline prosecution — a decision that's likely to upset Comey's conservative critics.

Prosecutors found the IG's findings compelling but decided not to bring charges because they did not believe they had enough evidence of Comey's intent to violate the law, according to multiple sources.

The concerns stem from the fact that one memo that Comey leaked to a friend specifically to be published by the media — as he admitted in congressional testimony — contained information classified at the lowest level of "confidential," and that classification was made by the FBI after Comey had transmitted the information, the sources said.
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US Senate committee green-lights sanctions against Nord Stream 2 pipeline


RT
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 15:58 UTC
Nord Stream 2
© Global Look Press / Stefan Sauer
Construction site of the Nord Stream 2 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted in support of the bill sanctioning firms involved in Nord Stream 2, a natural gas pipeline stretching from Russia to Germany, arguing the project strengthens Moscow.

The committee voted 20 to 2 on Wednesday morning to back the new penalties, part of the "Protecting Europe's Energy Security Act." Sponsored by Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire), the bill seeks to address concerns about so-called "Russian influence" in Europe.


Comment: After finding absolutely no evidence of 'Russia collusion' in the US - following an expensive, prolonged and exhaustive investigation - they think they're going to find it in Europe? Caitlin Johnstone: The Real Reason Propagandists Have Been Promoting Anti-Russia Hysteria


Shaheen claimed on Wednesday that the sanctions will affect only two companies: Allseas Group SA of Switzerland and Italian firm Saipem SpAof.

Comment: See also:

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Jeffrey Epstein dreamed of seeding 'master-race' with his DNA, planned 'baby factory' at his New Mexico ranch

Bridget Read
The Cut
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 21:07 UTC
Jeffrey Epstein
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Federal prosecutors announced charges of sex trafficking against wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein on Monday. Epstein is seen here in 2005.
The Jeffrey Epstein story somehow got even more disturbing today. A New York Times report says that the sex offender and billionaire was using his connections to elite scientists and academics in an attempt to help foster his dream of "seed[ing] the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at his vast New Mexico ranch."


Comment: Epstein's ego was psychopath-sized, apparently. More on his plans for a new human race from Fox:
Among the scientists Epstein consulted were Nobel prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who discovered the quark, Nobel laureate and M.I.T.'s theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek, paleontologist and evolutionary neurologist Oliver Sacks, the well-known physicist Stephen Hawking, and molecular engineer George M. Church, who has identified genes that could be modified to create superior humans.

He had allegedly revealed his 'superior race' plans to a a wide array of people beginning in the early 2000s.



Despite his 2008 sex-trafficking conviction, Epstein regularly held dinners, lunches, and conferences attended by many of the world's most prominent scientists, including Steven Hawking. Three people told the Times about one particular pursuit Epstein discussed at these events: "On multiple occasions starting in the early 2000s," the Times reports, "Mr. Epstein told scientists and businessmen about his ambitions to use his New Mexico ranch as a base where women would be inseminated with his sperm and would give birth to his babies. Mr. Epstein's goal was to have 20 women at a time impregnated at his 33,000-square-foot Zorro Ranch in a tiny town outside Santa Fe."

Comment: The utter freak probably only felt safe discussing this idea with his peers because some of them had similar ideas...

Bill Gates had a closer relationship with Jeffrey Epstein than he admitted, The New York Times reports

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Trump's comments trigger outpouring of support for Antifa extremists

Oliver JJ Lane
Breitbart
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 20:05 UTC
Antifa Germany
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Figures and organisations across the political left in Germany reacted with horror at the suggestion of U.S. President Donald Trump that the far-left organisation Antifa could be recognised as a terrorist organisation, prompting many to out themselves as supporters of the violent group.

The phenomenon of the social media message "I am Antifa" (#IchbinAntifa) was triggered over the weekend after President Trump publicly considered classifying Antifa as a terrorist organisation. The message trended on German-language social media, reports Deutsche Welle, with figures from the left-wing politics — particularly the Green party and the far-left Link (Left) party — signalling their support.
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GOP senator introduces bill to ban addictive features in social media

Emily Birnbaum
The Hill
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 18:45 UTC
Sen. Josh Hawley

Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Hawley told Fox News on Thursday he does not believe the Supreme Court's recent unanimity will convince liberals to cease their efforts to pack the court.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a freshman who has emerged as a top Republican critic of major technology companies in Congress, on Tuesday will introduce a bill banning social media companies from building "addictive" features into their products.

Hawley's Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology Act would make it illegal for social media platforms to hook users by offering them more content than they requested in order to get them to continue on their respective platforms.

The bill takes aim at practices specifically employed by the country's top social networking sites — YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.

Comment: It's no secret that social media platforms have researched and tested the most effective ways to keep people on their platforms, largely through the use of many little hits of dopamine. But the issue is much, much larger than this. People are seeking out addictive highs in droves. Aside from the opiate epidemic and drug addictions, there's so many ways for people to 'check out' from actually dealing with reality and truly living life. Legislation isn't going to change that. It's a choice that one must make to learn from the challenges we're all faced with.

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